One language, two meanings: Partisanship and responses to Spanish

Political Communication

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 421-445

  Hopkins, Daniel J ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immigration; Partisanship; Spanish; Survey experiments; Voting Rights Act

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987948210     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: 10917675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2014.894161     Document Type: Article

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